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There is no doubt that Wes Montgomery was one of the most legendary players of all time. In fact, when you say the words “jazz guitar,” many people immediately associate the genre with 'The Thumb', as he was affectionately known.

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Beginning his career by learning and performing note-by-note transcriptions of Charlie Christian solos, Wes quickly moved on to become one of the most influential guitarists from his, or any, era. His influence can be heard in the playing of great guitarists such as Pat Martino, George Benson, Pat Metheny and Emily Remler, just to name a few. Metal slug anthology ppsspp cheat file. You would be hard pressed to find any jazz guitarist that wasn’t influenced by Wes’ playing at one point or another in their development. Since Wes was such a powerhouse in the jazz guitar world, it is a good idea to spend some time studying his licks, phrases, and improvisational concepts, which is what this lesson is designed to do. So, grab your favorite axe (an L-5 if you have one handy) and begin exploring these commonly used phrases and improvisational concepts taken from the playing of one of the greatest jazzers of all time, Wes Montgomery.

Recommended listening. How to Practice These Licks To help you take the licks on this page further in your practicing and performance ideas, here are a few exercises that you can use to work these phrases into your playing. Before you learn how to play any lick, check out the theory behind the phrases to figure out the building blocks of the line, allowing you to create your own similar lines in the future. Play the licks in different keys across the neck. When studying a lick, find at least one other fingering in a different part of the neck. Transpose licks up or down an octave to have them available in at least two ranges on the neck.

Jazz Guitar Solos Pdf

Begin to alter the lick in your solos by changing the rhythms, adding notes into the phrase and taking notes away in order to make it less of a memorized phrase and more of a part of your playing overall. II V I Licks The first lick starts with a series of arpeggios. The first 4 notes make a Dm7 arpeggio, followed by a Cmaj7 arpeggio, then again a Dm7. The Cmaj7 arpeggio in the first bar contains all the tensions of Dm7: Cmaj7 C E G B Played over Dm7 b7 9 11 13 The last bar is build around a C triad arpeggio. Listen & Play.

The voice leading ( the notes in blue) makes a decending line starting at the 1 of Am7. Although the rhythm section plays the 2 5 over 2 bars (1 chord/bar), the voice leading suggests an Am7 on beat 1 and 2 and a D7 on beat 3 and 4 of each bar, like this: Am7 D7 Am7 D7. Bar 2 starts with an Em triad, which sounds like Am9. The other notes besides the voice leading are scale or chromatic tones. Here's another good voice leading example between the b7 of D7 and 3rd of Gmaj7. Listen & Play.

Dominant Licks The first measure of this dominant lick is fairly straight-forward, except for a cool arpeggio on the 3rd beat of the phrase. Here, you are playing Dbma7 over Eb7, which is like thinking of a maj7 arpeggio from the b7 of a dominant chord By doing so, you are highlighting all of the upper extensions in the Mixolydian mode: Dbmaj7 Db F Ab C Played over Eb7 b7 9 11 13 At the end of the first bar, you will find a commonly used Wes Montgomery rhythm, an 8th note followed by two 16th notes. This rhythmic pattern then continues for the rest of the second bar until you resolve the line to a Bb triad over a Bb7 chord. Listen & Play.

I have always enjoyed reading and looking at the transcriptions in magazine over the years. I have compiled a collection of 26 solos featuring jazz greats Herbie Hancock, Booker Little, Max Roach, Grant Green, Stan Getz, Slide Hampton, Thelonious Monk, Jackie McLean, Cuong Vu, Clifford Brown, Roy Haynes, Woody Shaw, Sonny Rollins, Jon Irabagon, John Fedchock, Dexter Gordon, Ben Riley, Wayne Shorter, Wes Montgomery, Oscar Moore, J.J.

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